Challenge Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is currently seeing the largest share of declines in democracy-focused Sustainable Development Goals. Throughout LAC, democratic backsliding has…
Led by Making Cents International, USAID’s YouthPower Learning project closed major knowledge gaps in PYD theory and practice, yet there is a continuing need to…
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a pervasive violation of unalienable human rights and a barrier to civic, social, political, and economic participation
Challenge Significant gaps remain in the areas of research and evaluation of youth programming. Apart from several known examples of success, there has been an…
Challenge Efforts by the international development community to improve women’s and girls’ access to quality education and training have yielded improvements over the years. Yet,…
Challenge The majority of smallholder farmers in Kenya subsist on low-input, low-output rain-fed agriculture on very small plots. Women and youth represent a large portion…
Challenge Jamaica’s persistent problem of violent crime has resulted in its regular inclusion in top ten lists of countries with the highest murder rates in…
Challenge Despite recent reductions in new HIV infections in eSwatini, the number of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in the country remains high. The impact…
Challenge Communities in Uganda suffer from multiple challenges, such as poverty, food insecurity, high rates of malnutrition, disease, illiteracy, and high population growth rates. Poor governance and…
Challenge The marginalization of youth in Northern Nigeria has resulted in a significant decrease in formal school enrollment and the inability of youth to build…
